spin measurements in supersymmetry at atlas

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Spin Measurements in Supersymmetry at ATLAS

Christopher LesterCavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

(on behalf of the ATLAS collaboration)

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This talk is Backwards

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not upside

down !

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Conclusions•ATLAS does not yet know the

circumstances (models, masses, integrated luminosities) in which the spins of supersymmetric particles will be unambiguously measurable

•There are lots of good and promising ideas – both within ATLAS and outside

•some are partly tested

•some are un-tested

•plenty of work remains to be done!

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What is “Discovering SUSY” ?

•What makes Supersymmetry different to Universal Extra Dimensional (UED) models?

•One part of the answer:

SPIN

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We will see two important themes:

•Mass measurements will precede(*) spin determinations

•“Spin measurement”(**) should not be confused with “sensitivity to spin”

(*) or will at best be simultaneous with

(**) Here “spin measurement” means “determining unambiguously the correct nature (scalar, fermion, vector) of one or more particles in a decay chain or model

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The methods considered here

•Spins in “QLL chain”

• A.Barr hep-ph/0405052 ATL-PHYS-2004-017

• Smillie et al hep-ph/0605286 (including ATLAS member)

• Biglietti et al ATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

(Study of second lightest neutralino spin measurement with ATLAS detector at LHC

• Matchev et al arXiv:0808.2472

•Slepton Spin (pair production)

• A.Barr hep-ph/0511115 ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-023

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Other interesting methods

•Gluino chain spin

• Alvez, Eboli, Plehn hep-ph/0605067

• MAOS method

• Cho, Kong, Kim, Park arXiv:0810.4853

•Spins in chains with charginos

• Wang and Yavin hep-ph/0605296

• Smillie hep-ph/0609296

• Spins in chains radiating photons

• Ehrenfeld et al arXiv:0904.1293

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Spin Consistency Check

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Spin Consistency Check

Di-Lepton Invariant Mass (GeV)

Rel

ativ

e F

req

uen

cy Straight lineConsistent with:

• Phase-space

• Scalar slepton (SFSF)

•Fermion KK lepton (FVFV)

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QL Spin Determination (A.Barr)

“NEAR”

“FAR”

How can we tell from ?

2 problems:

How can we distinguish the ‘near’ lepton from the ‘far’ lepton?

hep-ph/0405052 ATL-PHYS-2004-017

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Quark+NearLeptoninvariant mass distributions for:

sin ½θ*

Back to backin 2

0 frame

QL+

QL-

Phase space(spin-0)

Pro

babili

ty d

en

sity

QUARKS

L+ L- and

sin ½θ*

Back to backin 2

0 frame

QL-

QL+

Phase space(spin-0)

Pro

babili

ty d

en

sity

ANTI-QUARKSL+ L- and

__

_

hep-ph/0405052ATL-PHYS-2004-017

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Experimental problem

Cannot reliably distinguish QUARKs from ANTI QUARKs

In experiment, can only distinguishRED(QL+,_ L+) from BLUE(QL-,_L-)Can only distinguish lepton chargeRED(QL+,QL+) from BLUE(QL-,QL-)

Expect QUARK and ANTI-QUARK contributions to cancel:

QL+QL+_

QL-QL-

_

SUM jL+

SUM jL-

But LHC is Proton-Proton machine

•More Quarks than Anti-Quarks! So get:

QL+QL+_

QL-QL-

_

SUM

SUM

jL+

jL- Asy

mm

etry

!h

ep

-ph

/04

05

05

2

ATL-

PH

YS-2

004-0

17

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“Far” Lepton washout?(though compare with later comments Matchev arXiv:0808.2472)

“NEAR”

“FAR”

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jL+

So define mjL+, mjL- asymmetry

parton-level

detector-levelAsy

mm

etr

y “A

”

spin-0

Spin-

½

MjL / GeV sin ½θ*

where

jL-h

ep

-ph

/04

05

05

2

ATL-

PH

YS-2

004-0

17 500 fb-1

M(QL)

Charge asymmetry at detector level

Susy spins compared only with no spin

(i.e. with phase space)

Points are for 500 fb-1

detector level

no spin

parton level x 0.6

Barr

hep-p

h/0

40

50

52

ATL-

PH

YS-2

004-

017

(similar to SU3)

M(QL)

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Tested further in ATLASATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

Preselection cuts

Dilepton selection cuts

Parametrised Simulation (ATLFAST)

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Di-lepton mass spectraATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

SU1 – MC truth SU3 – MC truth

Here at SU1 there are two sleptons (êL =255 GeV, êR=155 GeV) below chi2 =264 GeV. Chi1=137 GeV

Here at SU3 there is only one accessible slepton below chi2

Chi2=219, êR=155, Chi1=118 GeV

M(LL) M(LL)

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Jet-lepton mass spectraATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

SU1 – MC truth SU3 – MC truth

M(QL) M(QL)

Truth AsymmetryATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et alSU1 – MC truth

Near lepton

Left slepton

Near lepton

Right slepton

Far lepton

Right slepton

Far lepton

Left slepton

A A

AA

220 /fb

220 /fb

220 /fb

220 /fb

M(QL) M(QL)

M(QL) M(QL)

Shows asy

mmetry

depends on parti

cle

identities

BackgroundsATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

•Main background is SUSY

•Mostly defeated by flavour subtraction

•Main Standard Model backgrounds are

•Di-top + jets

•W / Z + jets

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Fast simulation resultsATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

SU1 – ATLFAST SU3 – ATLFAST

Note ... Flavour subtraction

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Fast simulation resultsATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

A A

SU1 – ATLFAST SU3 – ATLFAST

Note ... Flavour subtraction

30 /fb100 /fb

Sufficient power to eliminate null hypothesis

M(JL) M(JL)

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Safety checkATL-PHYS-PUB-2007-004

Biglietti et al

SU1 – ATLFAST SU3 – ATLFAST

Expect to see NO ASYMMETRY in these OFOS lepton plots. Confirmed!

30 /fb100 /fb

M(JL) M(JL)

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QUACK !

QUACK !

SU

SY

UED

Not all things that quack are ducks!

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UEDUED

SUSY SUSY

SPS1a masses

UED type masses

UED and SUSY not distinguished by dilepton mass spectrun

he

p-p

h/0

60

52

86

Compare ratios of dilepton invariant mass distributions for

different spin configurations (SUSY is horizontal) :

M(LL)2 M(LL)2

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UED masses SPS 1a masses

Similar form, different magnitudeNot detectable for UED masses

Jet + lepton asymmetry not good at distinguishing UED and

SUSY either.

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“ANY-Spin” Determination (Smillie et.al.)

Later fuller follow-up (Matchev, Kong, et al)

F

F FF

S FS

he

p-p

h/0

60

52

86

arX

iv:0

80

8.2

47

2

M(JL)2

(SUSY)(UED)

rela

tive

pro

bab

ilit

y

Cannot distinguish:

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01~

01~Rl

~

Rl~

l

l

Direct di-slepton productionA.Barr hep-ph/0511115 ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-023

Event selection: •two single leptons•transverse missing energy > 100 GeV•no jets with pT> 100 GeV•no b-jets•mT2(l+, l-) < 100 GeV•Mll< 150 GeV•|missing pT+ pT(l+), pT(l-)| <100 GeV•Lepton pT(l1) > 40 GeV, pT(l2) > 30 GeV

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Look at slepton production angleA.Barr hep-ph/0511115 ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-023

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Have some access to desired angle

Distribution of is correlated with decay angle

A.Barr hep-ph/0511115 ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-023

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Fast simulation plot

Outer error bars: after SUSY & SM background subtraction

Significance strongly dependent on mass spectrum

A.Barr hep-ph/0511115 ATL-PHYS-PUB-2005-023

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End Notes•QLL chain

•Some spin “sensitivity” – but no strong UED/SUSY separation

•Reduced discriminatory power when considering general couplings (Matchev/Kong).

•Di-slepton production

•Better chance of separating UED/SUSY

•Still model dependent

•Both require large cross sections